The Coalition was represented recently at public hearings of submissions to a NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Climate Change, Emissions Trading Schemes and Natural Resource Management. Three of the six members of the Committee attended. The three attending were dumbfounded upon hearing the Soil Carbon story. We were dumbfounded as well, because we had made a 20-page submission on the subject to the Committee in December, 2007, before it widened its terms of reference to include trading.
(Note to those making submissions to Government Inquiries: If you can't get in front of the Inquiry to present your case, a document is almost worthless.) The Chair, Karyn Paluzzano MP, asked what the Coalition wanted. We replied: "Permission to start trading tomorrow on a no-Carbon sequestered, no-credits earned" basis. (See: New Manifesto Launched..)
Also visiting Soil Carbon HQ this week was Keith Emery, a senior soil and landscape specialist from the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change. He has a theory that his colleagues could do with some exposure to "Carbon Farmers" who he describes as 'observational scientists' (as opposed to 'experimental scientists'). He is a mapping specialist and is interested in building a database of live farm information that can feed into the scientists' processes. The magic word: "Collaboration."
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